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Earth & climate

Independent observations can constrain a climate explanation more strongly than one short record.

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Introduction to Earth & climate

How do we know Earth’s climate is changing?

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Climate and feedback

How can a feedback amplify a climate change?

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Water and land

How does water connect land, air and living systems?

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Elinor Ostrom

Research on how people organise shared resources. Compare actual rules, monitoring and conflict resolution rather than assuming a single governance solution.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Nishnaabeg intellectual traditions, land-based learning and Indigenous resurgence. Begin with a specific account of learning rather than a universalised idea of Indigenous knowledge.

Ailton Krenak

Critiques of development and the separation of humanity from the living world. Read his specific arguments alongside the political situations they address.

Bina Agarwal

Land rights, gender and participation in environmental governance. Distinguish nominal membership from the ability to influence a decision.

Kate Crawford

Research on AI’s material, labour and political conditions. Trace a system beyond its interface to extraction, human work and data infrastructures.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Botany, Potawatomi knowledge and arguments about reciprocity. Keep empirical questions and obligations toward the living world visible together.

Wangari Maathai

Environmental organising and connections among ecological conditions, livelihoods and political participation. Trace the institutions as well as the trees.

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How can people care for what they share?

Compare evidence about shared resources with accounts of reciprocity, participation and responsibility to place. These approaches ask overlapping but distinct questions.